since I took the red pill I am always strive to widen my freedom, every day a little bit more.  The idea of freedom, freedom in your mind, is the foundation. All other things will follow.

There is a key scene in the movie Apoclypse Now about freedom when Willard (Martin Sheen) came to Kurtz’s (Marlon Brando) cave and Kurtz just asked:

Have you ever considered any real freedoms ? Freedoms – from the opinions of others… Even the opinions of yourself.

These words are for all times in my mind, since I took the red pill.

Kurtz didn’t let Willard answer this question because he did know he will got no “Mahatma” answer so he went on and asked:

They say why…, Willard, why they wanted to terminate my command ?”

In this case, Willard just anwered what he have been told to answer:

I was sent on a classified mission, sir.

Then for me was clear, they don’t want to terminate Kurtz’s command, they want to terminate his freedom.  It runs through the movie like the central thread.  They are always want to terminate the freedom, OUR FREEDOM, by telling us that they want preserve freedom.

Well, what do you think about freedom and what are you doing to widen and preserve it.

To all the MGHOWs around the world, all the best whishes for 2015. Keep on going your own way !

By the way:  Independently of your current Situation, maybe trapped, maybe in a horrible marrige, maybe in a domestic quarrel, or paying alimonies and penalties etc.  and you feel like living in hell, remind this.

Also the Hell is a place which turns around the sun.

Take care and CHEERS!!!

I’ve been reading many men’s testimonies about marriage and divorces, it gets ugly, even my ex boss from way back said. “If I know what I know now, I would never got married”. The greatest wisdom is the kind that allow you to learn from other peoples mistakes and foolishness. If you don’t learn from it, then they suffered in vain.  If someone burned his hand on a stove, there is no need for you to try it too. So guys must map the spaces between the elements that control them, and explore their freedom. Else all the men who were fighting in wars for our freedoms have died in vain. If you can harvest that, then that would be a the only thing men can exclusively get from that what men before them have created, everything else is shared shared with entitled women.

Let the only men who died in vain be the ones who stayed behind on the Titanic so that women and children can get the lifeboats only for women a few years later to demand to be treated as equals.

A great deal of men sit in prison due to their involvement with women because they loved women or thought they did, men who never would have been there if they valued their freedoms more. An intruder breaks in and a man protects his family and shoot him, man sit in prison and woman finds a new man. and the list goes on. Some men would steal to feed their families and go to prison, she benefit from his crimes but gets to go to the next man while only he goes to prison. Don’t be a sucker, the social system with women are designed to exploit men as disposable resources. Only those who truly value freedom will truly have freedom.

I never sat down and crunched the numbers, but I’m willing to bet that if we take all the women who led a nation at war and divided it by all the women leaders in the world, and then did the same for men leaders, the ratio would show women leaders to be absolute warmongers compared to men.  One day, I should do this, but my knowledge of history is far too lacking to make an accurate or complete enough list to make this point.

Let’s see…I can think of:

Hatshepsut, circa 1500 BC, Ancient Egypt vs. the Abyssinias and vs. the …Hittites?…Semites?

Cleopatra VII, circa 40 BC, Ancient Egypt vs.Rome

Boudicea, circa 60 AD, Iceni vs. Rome

Queen Elizabeth I, 1500s, England vs. France and England vs. Spain, and vs. Mary of Scots, etc.

Catherine de Medici, 1500s, French Wars of Religion

Maria Theresa, 1700s, Seven Years War

Catherine the Great, 1700s, Russia vs. the Turks, the Swedes, the Poles

Queen Victoria, 1800s, Indian Rebellion

Golda Meir, 1970s, Yom Kippur War

Indira Gandhi, 1980s, Indian Army vs. the Damdami Taksal

Margaret Thatcher, 1980s, Faulkand Islands War

Who else am I missing?

Artemesia I, 480 BC, Greece vs. Persia

Zenobia, 3rd Century, Palmyra vs. Rome

Æthelflæd, 10th Century, Mercia vs. the Danes

Countess Matilda, 11th Century, Tuscany vs. Austria

Queen Isabella I, who is often regarded over Ferdinand of Aragon as the primary ruler of Castile, 1500s, Portugal vs. the Moors

“Bloody” Queen Mary I, 1500s, England vs. Ireland and France

Warrior Queen Suriyothai, 1500s, Siam vs. Burma

Empress Elizabeth of Russia, 1700s, War of Austrian Succession

Queen Anne of Britain, 1700s, Queen Anne’s War

Queen Lakshmibai, 1850s, India vs. the British

Geez…I’m starting to see that the easier list would have been of women rulers who WEREN’T the leader of a nation at war.

And in a perfect “jerk store” moment, long after this incident with the marriage counselor, I realized what I SHOULD have said to him:  if women ruled the world, regardless of whether there would be be more wars, the ones that did take place would never end because every time the warring parties met to parlay, every slight by the other side would be recalled, brought up, and thrown in the face of the enemy, and there would never be peace.

And by the way, MariusD, your very philosophical insight on the definition of freedom is worthy of the writings of Friedrich Schelling.  It’s also worthy of the Purple Patch thread.

*Honorable mention goes to Harriet Beecher Stowe, Helen of Troy and Joan of Arc who, while not leaders of nations, are said to be responsible for three separate wars.

Yes, I’ve always believed that therapy is bulls~~~ and a racket for women, a way to turn the spotlight on them to give them the incessant attention their narcissistic little hearts forever desire.  My ex was in therapy since before I knew her, and then she started dragging me into the fray.  I never wanted anything to do with it.  Now that she’s out of my life as much as I can legally manage under the gynocentric system of slavery that passes for the Family Court System, my goal is to never step foot in another therapist’s office for the rest of my life.

Men and women both have flaws inherent to their sex.  (Men are hard-wired to sow their seed and will go to great lengths to do so.  Women are hard-wired to extract resources from men.)  I hate the SOCIAL STRUCTURE and LEGAL SYSTEM that punish and enslave men for their gender-inherent flaws while simultaneously rewarding women for theirs.

Yes, I’m a lawyer and I said I hate the legal system.  I’m looking at YOU, Family Court system!

@John Doe, in the Purple Patches thread, you responded to MariusD’s statement in this thread that “Freedom is the “empty” space between areas of control.” by saying:

The ability to rip apart, divide, destroy, etc. provides this “empty” space.  However this has caused much suffering for many men at the mercy of a corrupted system.

Ironsoldier:  Your attempts are noble, but I fear subjectivity can “blind” this thread.  After all if “beauty is in the eye of the beholder” than you are deriving truth as you see fit.

On a side note, I wonder if I should have changed my forum name to “The Devil’s Advocate” because it seems that is all I do with these philosophy threads.  Or maybe instead of disagreeing I am just touching up someone else’s work of art.

I’m not sure I understood your post.  Could you elaborate?  I didn’t even realize you were disagreeing until I read your own description of your post as such.  I want to comprehend your point, but it went over my head.  What did you mean?